Monday, September 28, 2015

Vermont has been great for a number of reasons. The scenery
is awesome. The vibe is lovely. All in all it has been a wonderful stay.

In addition to that, I have had a number of poems rolling
through my head trying to take form, done some editing and writing, have a new
novel idea, read a lot of stuff, met David Orr, so many, many things that have
been making the creative juices flow again. Granted I was worried if this would
ever come back but clearly I needed to heal first. Sigh…

Other things, when we arrived here the trees all seemed to
have the same color green, pretty much across the board. Now that the leaves
are turning color, it is like each tree is trying to be as unique as possible.
It is like Van Gogh sneezed on his palette and the colors went everywhere. I
have never seen such vast color variance in leaves. My wife noted that in the spring
things are like this as well and that summer is that time where the trees try
to be grownups and conform only to get to fall and say screw it. I think that’s
a brilliant way of looking at it.